Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1a6505015fe9ab1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 20:31:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: ac07015a02ac0144b1806ae018d0b6eb SHA-1: 322fdefff894b7c5a553cc6dfea5e6c419b2f9b4 SHA-256: a1a6505015fe9ab10a9ca3e5fb393be92e660054a4938889f3dcc6eaf286b32a
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan. The document's structure as a link farm suggests it's designed to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cdab259dc8---63780487655.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dorrstrechy.cz/UserFiles/File/pegulewifulazovifosanuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ea23afb34ad67d5d1023ef17bb979cf/42820567908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o7aoaa7l1knaqki76t2ojemf4s/garasuwemila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86e406504e129a413a1a6759b7f922c6/wavebipanozila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f0bfa50649d2f3af5f4d15e0c500b51/vugokoxejup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://used-machinetools.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/74218314861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nhlfm96te831aq5jo266jj7vgm/32900903653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulsquare.com/userfiles/file/kibilafafikemibedakabejen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.finestkindcharter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b16daf4d42a---88525440757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rybczewice.pl/userfiles/file/71824518494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vigova.vn/Images_upload/files/14794756257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-pisanie-prac.pl/famprojekt_z_serwera/images/file/43150846865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghibms.com/userfiles/files/26142743862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diarch.in/WYSIWYGImage/file/34548744542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhadep30giay.com/uploads/image/files/sodotiwel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611b55f23c40f---jizujexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archi-m.ru/userfiles/file/81731428614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://washlounge.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xidenegonasanod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stalmost.pl/userfiles/file/91417721437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helmmsp.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ad1921c35b8431d435c3e96b7d3222f/18798515809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=three+digit+times+two+digit+multiplication+worksheetsPDF link annotation
    • http://pro.ovh.net/~tribuene/images/banque/file/93586111490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d646.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD646 17796 bytes
SHA-256: db7ac2d8e972ebf0a2e70cb7453d7d16d06bf192359aba411cbadd998ccc6fe4
font_01_sfnt_off0001046e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1046E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011c85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C85 11200 bytes
SHA-256: e4666d68fdf82b788986785cf99621c10d4dce6b7056e1672c303021b7f87438